BSK
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AgreedANY TIME now, I expect the following counties to be added for CWD:
Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Humphreys, Houston, and Stewart.
AgreedANY TIME now, I expect the following counties to be added for CWD:
Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Humphreys, Houston, and Stewart.
I believe that Wayne & Hardin are in due to close proximity of a Lauderdale Co, AL deer. If you take those two out, it sure looks like TN River has slowed it down.Currently, CWD "Management Zone" includes TWO counties east of the TN River. Hardin and Wayne. OP's restrictions apply in those counties as well.
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Interesting the CWD Management Zone is different than the Unit CWD.ANY TIME now, I expect the following counties to be added for CWD:
Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Humphreys, Houston, and Stewart
Add Hickman to that list. Lewis is a vertically narrow county and Hickmam lies directly above it.ANY TIME now, I expect the following counties to be added for CWD:
Lawrence, Lewis, Perry, Humphreys, Houston, and Stewart.
Very much so, and something others need to take note of. I hear CWD Management Zone and Unit CWD used interchangeably, many times in err.Interesting the CWD Management Zone is different than the Unit CWD.
Completely agree with this.Believe you are correct about this, but . . . . .
I would not prohibit hunters/managers from doing it, if they so desire.
We have too many laws, either not based in science, or based in pseudo-science, or more often based on nothing but the person in charge wanting to be in control of other people, and most often using fear of the unknown as the rationale.
Currently, in the CWD zone, where only legal hunters are prohibited from placing salt licks,
not only do homeowners do whatever they desire in their backyards, but cattle farmers dot the landscape with salt licks.
Since it's either not illegal for them, or not an enforced law, I see no basis strong enough to warrant this being imposed on legal hunters. Worse, this is in an environment of increasing illegal poaching, under which TWRA has never before been so unable to enforce the poaching laws.
As some others have stated on other threads, CWD is to some game-agency leaders what Covid was to some government leaders --- a mechanism to force fear-based controls over other people.
But back to the salt, I see deer regularly visiting salt licks that were made decades ago, with no salt added in years. Old salt licks dot the landscape. Between this, cattle farmers & homeowners maintaining salt licks, what difference does it make that legal hunters can't?
Never mind the illegal hunters & poachers are running rampant with relative impunity (and still placing new salt licks).
Kinda like the gun laws are mainly just harming law-abiding people?
Yessir.I believe that Wayne & Hardin are in due to close proximity of a Lauderdale Co, AL deer. If you take those two out, it sure looks like TN River has slowed it down.
I've seen that happen. But mine were abandoned by the deer 4 or 5 years after I stopped adding salt.Amazing how smart deer are. Knowing not to dig in a hole they've dug in for decades.
I know of salt licks that were abandoned 15 years ago. They still digging in them.
I'll bet you a dollar against a donut that all your deer did was begin using some different salt licks on your neighbors' properties. When other salt licks are being replenished, "your" deer may just prefer the fresher salt.But mine were abandoned by the deer 4 or 5 years after I stopped adding salt.
Nothing gets done unless a photo is taken of it and submitted with an address to local officer and copy everyone else at the region office.100 feet is @ 33 yds.
Drive around West TN, and I suspect you'll see most deer corn feeders
closer to 50 yds behind the homes.
("Bird" feeders are usually very close to homes.)
If these "wildlife" feeders are supposed to be no further than 100 ft from a home,
then there's apparently no enforcement of this supposed law.
You are implying that you want someone with a feeder on their own land 50 yards from their back porch to get a fine. Seriously?Nothing gets done unless a photo is taken of it and submitted with an address to local officer and copy everyone else at the region office.
So after the new accusations that TWRA F'd with the CWD numbers and no new positive counties last year I don't see why Benton is now green. I have avoided hunting in counties that I can't travel from with a whole carcass but now I get the green light. Makes a lot of sense.Currently, CWD "Management Zone" includes TWO counties east of the TN River. Hardin and Wayne. OP's restrictions apply in those counties as well.
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